Category: 7. Science

The launch pad of Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome spaceport in Kazakhstan sustained significant damage following a botched Soyuz launch last week.

While the Soyuz MS-28 crew on board the rocket, including cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and…

Next-generation drone flight software is just one of 25 technologies for the Red Planet that the space agency funded for development this year.

When NASA engineers want to test a concept for exploring the Red Planet, they have to find ways…

Original story from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL; Grenoble, France).

Researchers have visualized how a large RNA molecule assembles itself into a functional machine.

RNA is a central biological macromolecule, now…

Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said Tuesday, adding that queens do not seem to commit this act of self-sacrifice.

Many animals conceal illness for social…

It is something like the “Holy Grail” of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation. The world of tiny particles is described extremely well by quantum theory, while the world of gravitation is captured by Einstein’s general…

Settling Mars has been a hot topic for years due to its close proximity and the similarities it shares with Earth like an atmosphere and water. Even NASA has set its sights on sending humans to Mars some time in the 2030s.

However, spaceflight is…

Ant host

As host species, we used the invasive garden ant, Lasius neglectus. We collected several hundred workers, multiple queens and brood of this species from its introduced supercolonial populations^26,27 in Jena, Germany (N 50° 55’…

That Mars once hosted water is now old news, but have you ever imagined the Red Planet drenched in tropical storms?

NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered light-colored rocks tossed about its mission path. On Earth, this…

This cell likes it hot. A tiny, single-celled amoeba that can thrive at temperatures that kill…